Race Migrations: Latinos By Wendy Roth Summary
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Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race is a novel written by Wendy Roth, explaining how immigration from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to the United States has impacted the changing cultural conceptions of race. In her study of immigration, she explores the societies of those who chose either to leave or remain in their home countries. The results from this study allowed her to understand and explain how migrants adopt an American idea about race without abandoning their earlier ideas of race. In other words, Roth explains how racial schemas are developed and transferred across borders, creating the possibility for schemas to be learned without an individual leaving his/her home country. Also, she uses this study to answer how Hispanics/Latinos integrate into the United States and where they fit into its racial structure. Overall, Roth’s study shows how racial classification and stratification are ideas …show more content…
This is that the different schemas individuals use to determine race are closely associated with levels of education. In the novel, Roth reported that the Nationality schema was used mostly by non-migrant Puerto Ricans with both higher and lower levels of education. This informed the reader that non-migrants with lower levels of education use this schema to determine an individual’s race depending on the people who populate a specific geographical location. Roth also reported that the Continuum schema was used by many Dominican non-migrants with higher levels of education that determined race based on an individual’s physical features, bloodline, and/or ancestry line. Lastly, Roth reported migrants to the United States adopted a more one-drop-rule approach to race classification that resulted in many to identify as black. Overall, each of these schemas was often intertwined when individuals identified the race of others and
Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race is a novel written by Wendy Roth, explaining how immigration from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to the United States has impacted the changing cultural conceptions of race. In her study of immigration, she explores the societies of those who chose either to leave or remain in their home countries. The results from this study allowed her to understand and explain how migrants adopt an American idea about race without abandoning their earlier ideas of race. In other words, Roth explains how racial schemas are developed and transferred across borders, creating the possibility for schemas to be learned without an individual leaving his/her home country. Also, she uses this study to answer how Hispanics/Latinos integrate into the United States and where they fit into its racial structure. Overall, Roth’s study shows how racial classification and stratification are ideas …show more content…
This is that the different schemas individuals use to determine race are closely associated with levels of education. In the novel, Roth reported that the Nationality schema was used mostly by non-migrant Puerto Ricans with both higher and lower levels of education. This informed the reader that non-migrants with lower levels of education use this schema to determine an individual’s race depending on the people who populate a specific geographical location. Roth also reported that the Continuum schema was used by many Dominican non-migrants with higher levels of education that determined race based on an individual’s physical features, bloodline, and/or ancestry line. Lastly, Roth reported migrants to the United States adopted a more one-drop-rule approach to race classification that resulted in many to identify as black. Overall, each of these schemas was often intertwined when individuals identified the race of others and